On the asymmetry of the stress tensor of materials with internal degrees of freedom

W. Oevel and J. Schröter

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 105, issue 1, 169-186

Abstract: It was first shown by West that the stress tensor in the balance of linear momentum can be chosen to be symmetric. In this paper some consequences of this symmetrization procedure and its physical meaning are studied. On a statistical mechanical basis an asymmetric stress tensor for materials with internal degrees of freedom is derived. Arguments are given that the asymmetric stress tensor has to be preferred to the symmetrized one.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90068-6

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